Tuesday, April 14, 2020

Create Farmhouse Canisters


I cannot quit throwing things in the fire to rust and age them. It really is quite therapeutic, tossing things that others have discarded into the flames, never knowing how they will come out. My latest fire transformations started life as a popcorn tin and a large butter cookie tin.

I little fire, paint, hydrogen peroxide, salt, and stencils and have a pair of perfect farmhouse food canisters.
Create Farmhouse Canisters
The sugar tin sat for awhile, rusting, so it is extra aged.
DIY Rusted Farmhouse Canisters
I rusted the flour tin for less than 15 minutes, so it is not as rusty, crusty. I think it makes the pair look more authentically old to have them a bit different.
DIY Rusted Farmhouse Canisters
After I pull the tins from the fire (I keep them in the fire for a few hours), I wipe the soot off and paint them with whatever I can find--typically interior latex, not fully covering the tins.
When the paint is dry, I might sand some off and then I pour hydrogen peroxide on the tin while it rests on a bucket and sprinkle salt. I let that sit for 10 minutes-10 days, depending on what is happening in my life. I brush off the dried salt and clear coat the tins with spray.
DIY Rusted Farmhouse Canisters
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DIY Rusted Farmhouse Canisters
Using the flour and sugar stencils from Funky Junk's Old Sign Stencils (Get them HERE), I stencil the tins with black paint. Taping the stencils on makes it much easier to stencil on a curved surface.
DIY Rusted Farmhouse Canisters
I sand a little of the black paint off and then finish with another clear coat. I also clear coat the inside so that anything that gets stored in them stays clean.

I love their vintage farmhouse feel!

6 comments:

  1. These are awesome! I Love them. Thanks for the tips❤️

    Sandi

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  2. I appreciate that we are not all alike, that we don't all like the same things. What a boring world it would be!!!! I've just never been able to develop a like for RUST. Just not my thing. But you remain my hero when it comes to making a silk purse out of a sow's ear:)

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    1. Ha-ha! I get it, liking rusty things is a little weird. I think I like the warmth of it. But, honestly I don't have a lot of it in my house.

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  3. Oh, I want to do this! I have several dozen such tins in my stash. My style is a little different from yours...I'd probably paint them bright aqua with a red label, or some such. But what is the recipe, exactly? Do you say somewhere else (I've looked and can't find where) or is it just so simple I should be able to figure it out? Right now I've got: throw tin straight into a roaring fire without any prep, leave it for...dunno, pull it out (after it's cool or with tongs?), spray it with hydrogen peroxide and then sprinkle table salt all over it? Leave for an hour? I'm sorry I may be overthinking things.

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    1. Overthinking is okay! No recipe--just a dash of this and a sprinkle of that! Leave an hour or leave 24 hours, depends, each tin is different.

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Thanks so much for taking the time to comment, I really appreciate your kind words!